Synopsis:The Emperor is back - and this
time he's out for blood! Following his battle with Luke
Skywalker in Dark Empire II,
Emperor Palpatine was forced to occupy an inferior
clone-body. That body is now aging rapidly, and
Palpatine's final, irrevocable end is near unless he can
infuse his line of clones with genetic material from a
Jedi bloodline. His target: Han and Leia's youngest
child, Anakin!
Death stalks Emperor Palpatine! The Emperor's aging
process is rapidly accelerating and his doom is foretold
by the oracle stone. The key to his problem, the
solution to his aging, is close at hand; Han and Leia's
youngest child, Anakin, can reverse the process.
Palpatine must kidnap young Anakin and claim the boy's
body as his own! But for the sake of their son, and for
the sake of the galaxy, Han and Leia cannot let that
happen -- even if it means losing their own lives.

Chronology:
This story occurs approximately 11 years after the
Battle of Yavin.